This is the first beta release of OpenVPMS version 1.5. OpenVPMS 1.5 has some big advancements contained in it including but not limited to the electronic supply chain interface (ESCI) for sending and receiving orders and deliveries to wholesalers, and changes to the workspaces to allow easy bulk editing of products and other items. 

Also of note are some big advances in improved (faster) workflow through changed patient note editing (to minimise the chance of history lockout and subsequent lost histories) and addition of several keyboard shortcuts and new 'finalise' and 'in progress' buttons in the invoice editor. 

Many of the new features require some additional implementation steps over a typical release. The documentation for this can be found here

The following steps must also be undertaken:

1. Backup your database prior to carrying out any steps, and backup the old openvpms file system in the tomcat webapps directory
2. Update the database using the sql script in the release (update/db/migrate-1.4-to-1.5.sql script)***
3. update the archetypes using the archetype loader script in the bin folder of the release.
4. replace the tomcat webapps folder openvpms.war with the war file in the release.

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Please note that this is a beta release and as such is not yet ready for production environments

The release can be downloaded from http://repository.openvpms.org/releases/org/openvpms/openvpms-release/1.5-beta-1/openvpms-release-1.5-beta-1.zip